{"id":374655,"date":"2025-12-28T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374655\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:59:06","slug":"blue-jackets-defenseman-zach-werenski-put-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374655\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski put on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 28, 2025, 12:27 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"724d5dd5-197c-6f1d-29ca-a0b4f25eb1b6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/cbj\/columbus-blue-jackets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jackets<\/a> placed All-Star defenseman <a data-player-guid=\"ad53e654-f3fe-2102-d37b-1b8e1bbfb551\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3899972\/zach-werenski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Werenski<\/a> on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>The move is retroactive to Dec. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Werenski, second in the league among defensemen in goals (14) and points (40), is considered day-to-day by Columbus after suffering a lower-body injury late during the Dec. 20 game at the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"183c31f7-2eed-15c0-7fa1-a568d20bf3ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/ana\/anaheim-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. He is also second among all players in ice time, averaging 26:48 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4064781\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathieu Olivier<\/a> was activated off injured reserve after missing 13 games with an upper-body injury that happened at Washington on Nov. 24. He has three goals and nine points in 23 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 28, 2025, 12:27 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8212; The Blue Jackets placed All-Star defenseman Zach Werenski on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-374655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}